To R e d: Thank you for the lengthy and invigorating reviews, they made my day to read your observations and opinions on them, you certainly did a great job at taking them apart and making them deeper than I thought they were, so, thank you very much! :D
Anyways, this and another request are from Ai shadow-chan that I decided to do before I get back on track with my list as a thank you for her helping with ideas for a couple of the requests I was stuck on. c:
Pairing: Twins/Flaky
Rating: T
Word: Cops and Robbers
Warning for language, zero plot, and minor Splendid/SplendontxFlaky
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A light swoosh sounded in the air as the automatic doors slid open to invite a pair of grinning boys inside. Individual bags clenched in their hands, they strolled into the small store, air condition meeting their warm flesh instantly.
"Welcome!" Greeted the tall store clerk from behind the register before going back to messing with the bottle of nail polish he was using to paint the counter. His tongue stuck out in concentration as his blue hair drifted over his narrowed eyes.
Seeing that he was distracted and wasn't paying them any attention, the two green haired males snickered and made their way into separate aisles to start collecting. Neither of them took notice of the front doors sliding open to bring in another customer - too busy with tossing things into their bags.
Lifty was tying up his bag when something nudged his shoulder. "Hurry up, you done yet?" His brother whispered, his bag full and held over his shoulder as he watched his sibling expectantly.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Calm the hell down, will ya? It's not like stupid over there is paying attention." He replied, lifting his much heavier bag and tossing it onto his shoulder, almost striking his elder in the face.
Shifty snarled and backed up a few steps. "Watch it asshole."
"You watch it, stupidass." Lifty growled back, beginning his trek down the aisle.
"That was a stupid retort." The older bandit jeered, grabbing a bag of chips off the shelf they were passing and tossing it at the head of green hair; the package crunched and crinkled, making a bunch of noise when it hit its target and landed on the ground.
The younger one turned his head to send his brother a glare with a scowl playing on his lips. "Damn dumbass, shut the fuck up before you get us caught," he then snorted and released a chuckle. "And here I thought you were the brains of these heists."
Snarling, Shifty opened his mouth to release an insult filled with many colorful words, when Lifty suddenly paused in walking, his body jerking back a few steps. Lifting an inquiring brow, Shifty stepped forward to see what had faltered his brother in his walking.
He blinked when a head of red hair pulled back from his brother's chest with an apologetic look plastered to her small face. "I-I'm so sorry!" She cried, staring up at the wide eyed masked man.
Wondering what had his twin so shell shocked, Shifty looked back at the woman to examine her fully. His own forest colored eyes widened when he noticed that she was donned in a police uniform - gun and handcuffs strapped to her waist in plain sight.
An awkward silence ensued between the three as they merely stared at each other. The younger gulped when the woman's crimson eyes suddenly narrowed as she took in his brother and his appearances, most particularly the suspicious masks wrapped around their heads.
"Wait," she whispered, taking a step closer and peering up at Lifty. "Haven't I seen you two before?"
"Nope." Lifty blurted out.
"Never seen you in our lives lady." Shifty added in.
"Yeah, you're crazy." Lifty just had to add in causing Shifty to glare at him, tempted to smack him upside the head.
"I-I'm pretty sure I've seen you two.." The redhead muttered, pulling out her phone and scrolling through it. Her eyes widened when she found the wanted pictures.
"I-I was right! You two are those twin criminals that Splendid and Splendont has been trying to catch!" She cried out in surprise while the twins stomach dropped at the sight of her putting away her phone and pulling out a small radio and pressing a button on the side.
"Splendid-" Gasping, Flaky watched as her device flew out of her hand to skid all the way down the aisle.
While she was hurrying to fetch her radio, Lifty lowered his raised hand that smacked the device and took off running without a word to his twin.
Seeing his sibling darting off without bothering to alert him made Shifty snarl as he chased after him. "Fucking asshole." He grumbled under his breath.
"H-hey, wait! Stop!" They heard behind them along with the sound of footsteps chasing them but neither bothered to look back as they picked up the pace. They managed to elude the two dumbass cops for months now, they're not about to get caught by a tiny redhead.
They ran for what Shifty was pretty sure a couple blocks already and yet he could still hear the clatter of footsteps from the petite cop still chasing them.
"Fuck, this one is persistent." Lifty muttered, glancing back at the redhead still determinedly tailing them, though she has quit yelling at them to stop, seeing that all she could get out was pants at the moment.
Shifty, by then, was panting heavily like a dog. What is wrong with this woman?! The two wonder cops always stopped chasing them after about two blocks seeing as they'll always argue while chasing the twins until it got to the point where they end up attacking each other instead - escaping criminals forgotten entirely.
But this one doesn't have any partner to distract her and she doesn't look like she was running out of energy anytime soon and Shifty was exhausted as hell; his lungs and legs burned from the exertion and his throat was parched and stinging from the air consistently bellowing in and out of his open mouth.
Meanwhile Lifty looked like he could continue running for hours, not even breaking a sweat.
Shifty sneered in irritation.
Fucking athletic jackass.
Wanting to shake the cop off their trail already, Lifty grinned when he spotted an alleyway coming up. Turning, he darted into it with his brother right behind.
His eyes widened when a huge forbidding brick wall met his gaze, forcing him to skid to a stop as Shifty slammed into his back making the two stumble forward.
"What the fuck-" Shifty growled, looking around his brother to see the dead end. "Oh, you have got to be fucking- Lifty you dumbass!"
"Shit, I didn't know this alley was gonna be a dead end!" Lifty growled back, cursing his luck at getting stuck in a dead end of all places.
Leaving his brother to lean tiredly on the wall, the younger twin spun around to hurriedly get out of the alley and continue running only to stop when a small body appeared from around the corner, a black item held in her hands aimed at the twins.
"F-freeze!" She cried, panting heavily to catch her breath. "Y-you two are under arrest, s-surrender peacefully."
Normally, he would have ignored her and just pushed past the small woman, but the gun held in her shaky grasp kept Lifty rooted to his spot as he eyed the thing nervously. "Uh...hey...take it easy there, little lady." Raising his hand that wasn't holding the bag and taking a step back.
The gun trembled violently in her grasp as she shivered more in nervousness instead of exhaustion now but she still kept the barrel trained on the younger brother. "G-get down on t-the ground." She commanded weakly.
Finally having caught his breath, Shifty glanced up from under the brim of his fedora to assess the woman. He smirked when he noticed how much she was trembling, so much so that the dandruff in her unruly hair would flutter off to scatter across the ground. His sharp eyes took in the way she gulped nervously, her large eyes flitting from him to his brother continuously then to the gun held in her unsteady grip.
What he noticed made him grin victoriously.
"Well," he started, placing his bag onto the ground and straightening up from leaning against the wall. "I'm usually not into authority figures...but I must say, you are one cute cop."
Flaky quickly flipped the gun onto the older twin as he began to stroll casually towards her. "S-stop! I-I'm warning you...don't make me s-shoot you!" She whimpered, finger brushing along the trigger, when he continued heading towards her with his hands held playfully in the air with a mocking smirk toying at the corner of his lips.
"Shifty, what the fuck are you doing?" Lifty asked with wide eyes, wondering if all that running had killed his brother's braincells. The woman was so jumpy and nervous at the moment and he was sure that if Shifty scared her enough she might end up accidentally pulling the trigger.
"I would like to see that~" Shifty addressed her, ignoring his twin behind him. He didn't stop until he was right in front of the small cop, the barrel of the gun pressing onto his chest. "Because...you've never fired that thing before, have you?"
She didn't answer him, merely stared up at him with wide eyes, tears pricking the edges and he really did think she was quite cute for a cop - especially when she was being intimidated by him.
"You know," he continued, lowering his hands to wrap around hers, grin widening when she jumped at the action, finger squeezing the trigger only for nothing to happen. "I don't know if you noticed...but you can't exactly shoot anyone when the safety is on." He chuckled, snatching the gun out of her grasp, causing her to gasp as she took a few steps back.
He held the gun up in the air for her to see as he messed with it. "Here, princess, this is how you take off the safety." He told her, demonstrating for her than promptly turning the gun to aim at her. "There. It's off; shall I show you how to shoot it?"
Whimpering, she shook her head furiously and backed up a few steps. She squeaked when her back met with a hard chest, glancing up, she caught the younger brother's mischievous gaze as he wrapped his arms around her, caging her in and keeping her from escaping.
Lowering his head, he nuzzled his nose to her scarlet strands, knocking off her police cap to lay forgotten on the ground. "And here I thought my brother was getting stupider with each heist. Glad to see his observation skills are still top notch."
"Hey, shut the fuck up," Shifty grumbled, still messing with the gun and checking how much bullets was inside. "It's better than you with your all brawn and no brains style."
"Too be honest," Lifty continued, ignoring his twin's insult. "I thought you were cute as hell when you first bumped into me...even if you are a cop."
Tightening his grip around her when she began to struggle, the younger bandit grinned against her hair. "I wouldn't even mind if you handcuffed me...to your bed~"
Shifty chuckled, using his free hand to trace along her quivering chin. "I would prefer to handcuff you to my bed~" He told her with a tongue slipping along his lower lip.
"For once I agree with you." Lifty hummed.
"P-please, release me. I-if you let me go r-right now I won't charge you t-two with resisting arrest." Flaky begged, her vision blurry with unshed tears; this was her first time having to apprehend someone by herself; let alone two people - she usually always have either Splendid or Splendont with her to help.
This is so nerve wracking and she didn't know what she was thinking when she decided to pursue the twins on her own.
"I wonder what those two stupid cops would say if they know that we are going to take you home with us?" Shifty murmured, sliding his index finger lazily across her glossy lips.
"They would say that you two are dead." A deep, powerful, angry voice replied from behind them as Shifty felt his newly acquired gun ripped from his hand to instead point at his face as he backed up with his hands held up in the air.
Hearing a click from behind his head, Lifty stiffened and slowly released Flaky from his arms as he moved around her to go stand by his petrified brother with his hands raised in the air.
Smiling in relief, Flaky turned around to the two large cops who had their guns trained on the crooks with cold eyes. "H-how'd you guys find m-me?" She asked them, surprised at how easily they found her and to know to look for her - she wasn't able to fully contact them after all, having only said Splendid's name until her radio got knocked out of her hands where instead of retrieving her radio she chose to chase down the twins.
"Well.." Splendont started, looking pointedly at the blue haired cop next to him.
"I did!" Splendid shouted, grinning proudly at her. "You remember when I gave you that shot that I told you that all cops are supposed to get before they started working?"
"Uhm...yes?" Flaky murmured, recalling being frightened when the smiling cop held up the needle in front of her.
"Well I lied! That was a tracking device I stuck in you!" He exclaimed proudly, pulling out a small device that displayed her location on the screen. "And it worked! We were able to find you easily."
At his side, the exasperated cop's palm met his face. "I was wondering how you knew where to go..." He switched his gun onto his partner instead. "That's an invasion of her privacy, you stalking jackass!"
"Hey! You shut up! It's what helped us find her, isn't it?" Splendid retorted, hiding his tracking device back into his pocket as he switched his own gun to aim at his glaring partner.
Splendont's blue eyes turned to Flaky apologetically. "Flakes, I'm sorry about this dumbass putting a tracking device in you. I promise I'll help you find a way to take it out."
"No! Don't take it out!"
"Shut the hell up, you stalker!"
"I-it's okay," Flaky interjected quietly, her hands wringing into her uniform shirt nervously. "It helped you guys f-find me and that's all that m-matters."
"Uhm," she gazed up at the two staring down at her curiously with watery eyes, her teeth nibbling on her lower lip. "T-thank you."
Splendont was the first to react as his cheeks tinged a light pink, clearing his throat; he turned his head to look to the side. "...You're welcome."
Seconds later, Splendid reacted...with a lot more emotion than his look alike. His ruby eyes widened as a vibrant blush took over his tanned cheeks with a dribble of liquid beginning to leak out of his nose, worrying Flaky. "A-are you okay, S-Splendid?" She asked, staring at the trail of red leading a path out of his right nostril.
She squeaked when his hands reached up and he made squeezing motions towards her chest causing her to lift her arms to shield them from her partner as his hands got slowly closer by the second. "You are just so damn cuuuuute~"
He didn't get much further though when a fist met the side of his head, making him stumble away from her as the redheaded male held his fist up threateningly towards his idiotic partner with a stoic look though his cold eyes promised death. "Can't you for once not be a pervert towards Flaky and keep your disgusting hands to yourself?" He growled, eye twitching from his barely suppressed temper.
Wiping his nose with his fist, Splendid straightened up and gestured towards the confused Flaky. "No! Do you see how cute she is? How can I keep my hands to myself when she's so adorable!"
His partner sent him a grimace, finger itching to pull the trigger and shoot his partner; he could always just say they got in a crazy shootout. "It's called self-control...something you don't have."
"And you have a stick jammed so far up your ass you can't even find the end of it anymore. How can you resist the charms of this adorable woman and not want to touch her?" Splendid argued and Flaky could see that they were about to get into yet another pointless argument.
"Because I am a gentleman unlike you, you uncouth oaf." He shot back, patience dangerously close to snapping.
"I don't even understand what that word means!" Splendid complained.
"Of course you wouldn't with your pea sized brain."
"Stop mocking my intelligence!"
"You don't have any intelligence to begin with."
And before Flaky even realized what was going on, the two 'professional' cops lunged at each other like rabid dogs, completely forgetting about their third partner and the criminals that they were supposed to arrest.
She only heard a faint rustle behind her before she felt a hand cup her face, tilting it up to meld her lips with another's in a light kiss. When they pulled away a second later, she noticed that it was the younger twin grinning down at her. "See ya, sweet cheeks." He told her with a wink, taking his hand away and beginning to escape with his bag held securely in his hand.
A hand touched her waist and Flaky felt a second pair of lips touch her own, this one being more bold and licking her lips as he parted from hers. "Let's play again, princess." He snickered, spinning around to follow his twin.
Breaking out of her shell shocked state, Flaky was about to start chasing them again. "Hey wait!" Her hand reached down to take out her handcuffs, gasping, she looked down to see them missing.
"Until next time, sweetheart!" Shifty called, twirling her handcuffs in the air teasingly.
"A-ah! Splendont, Splendid! T-they're getting away!" She cried towards the brawling cops.
Suddenly Splendont paused mid punch and pointed his gun behind him, firing a shot and narrowly missing one of the twins legs as they darted around the corner and out of sight.
"Whoa! What the fuck man?!" Splendid shouted, staring at the redhead's gun still held up in the air incredulously. "Were you seriously going to shoot them?! Isn't that police brutality or something?"
"No," Splendont muttered, turning back to his dumbfounded partner. "This is police brutality." And using the hand that was holding the gun, he brought it up to smack Splendid on the side of the head, making sure he felt the full brunt of the metal colliding with the side of his head before bringing it back to hit him again making his head fly the opposite direction.
"And if you weren't so fucking stupid - as usual - than those two jackasses wouldn't have gotten away. Again." He growled, venting out his frustration by pistol whipping his partner over and over.
Recovering a bit from the first staggering blow, Splendid was able to gain his bearings and right as the offending hand was coming back for a sixth hit, the injured male lifted a leg and kicked out, aiming between the legs where the sole of his shoe met a very delicate area.
He grinned when he heard a pained groan as his angry - now in agony - partner cupped his precious package and crumpled to the ground with an uncharacteristic whimper.
A gasp was heard as Flaky took a step forward and laid a comforting hand upon the cringing man's back. "A-are you okay Splendont?"
Mustering up a strained smile for her, he forced himself to ignore the throbbing and stand up. "I'm okay Flaky, don't worry about me." He assured her, patting her head gently.
His blue eyes rapidly darkened into a dangerous glare as they switched back to his still smug partner. "Why the fuck would you aim for another man's penis?" He growled, not noticing Flaky's cheeks flare up at the mention of the male's private part.
"Because you're stupid!" Splendid replied, breaking out in laughter like he told the most hilarious joke seconds afterward.
"You're the most immature, idiotic person on this planet." He muttered, deciding to holster his gun before he really shoots the stupid man before him.
"Yeah, well...atleast I admit I'm perverted!" The blue haired cop shouted.
"What the hell does that have to do with anything?!"
"Unlike you who claims he is a gentleman but always lets Flaky walk ahead of him so he can stare at her ass!"
Splendont's cheeks instantly darkened at that - he didn't think anyone ever noticed that...that asshat...he just had to scream that out in the loudest voice possible, didn't he? And in front of Flaky herself..
He spun towards the flustered female with wide eyes. "Flaky, don't listen to this dumbass. He's just making stuff up to make me look bad."
"No I'm not! He lets you walk in front of him than refuses to let his perverted eyes part from your beautiful ass~"
By then, Splendont's face now matched his hair as he snarled at his obnoxious partner with a glare that could kill. "You motherfu-" Was all Flaky could hear before the now pissed cop practically tackled his partner to the ground.
Hearing nothing but expletives shooting from the rumbling cops mouth, Flaky sighed and decided to pull out her cell phone.
Can you pick me up, please? They're fighting again and I just want to go home. I don't think I'll be getting a ride from either of them anytime soon... She pressed send and watched as she got a reply seconds later from Petunia.
Seriously? This is like the fifth time this week that they've gotten into a fight. Why don't you ask to be given different partners?
Finished reading it, Flaky giggled and typed up her reply.
No, it's okay. They fight a lot but they're both really sweet...oh and I need to tell you about how I got kissed by these twin thieves...
She giggled again when the reply came instantly, she knew the bluenette wouldn't be able to resist if she had something interesting to talk about.
Oooh girl, I'm on my way right now!
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Hehe, the twins didn't seem to have as big of a role as the Splentwins actually..But AmI's finally updating tomorrow evening and I can't wait to see it and I had to hurry and post this so she doesn't hold her chapter hostage. :3
Next request from Ai shadow-chan: Splendont/Flaky, Assistant.